[MPlayer-users] mencoder -really-quiet

[Grant]

>>>>> I'm using mencoder in a crontab with > /dev/null so I'm only emailed
>>>>> about STDERR.  I added -quiet and I still receive messages like this:
>>>>>
>>>>> Could not determine number of frames (for absolute seek).
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm going to try -really-quiet, but will that suppress any important
>>>>> messages such as failure of the command?
>>>>
>>>> Yes, I think so.
>>>> However failures should also be indicated by the return value, so I think
>>>> cron should still notice them, even if you won't get the error message,
>>>> in case that helps.
>>>
>>> Thanks Reimar.  Can anyone confirm this or does anyone have an idea
>>> for receiving only important messages on STDERR from mencoder?
>>>
>>> - Grant
>>
>> You could add "1>/dev/null" to the end of you command to make STDOUT go to /dev/null
>
> You can ignore that. I just noticed that you said you are basically doing that already.

No problem, I am doing that already.  I'm trying to figure out how to
receive only important messages from mencoder so I'm not emailed about
trivial stuff.

- Grant